Yes! I went to check the condition of the road to one of my favorite trails and was pleasantly surprised to see that it is drivable and then surprised to see the flowers starting to bloom. I has been a long wait!

Those flowers were worth waiting for and your photos are a wonderful documentation.
In Denmark it’s just the opposite. We are a month ahead.
The last month with east wind and no rain has provided good conditions for fires.
Fortunately, the first fires are extinguished without major damage
I look forward to see more of your discoveries from the trails.

Spring has come late here this year. February was a touch month with lots of snow and very low temperatures and March was not nearly as mild as usual. Despite that, there have been several wildfires is the southern parts of our state; none close. My fire gear is ready though and our fire department has had several training session in preparation.

Other than the buttercup, I’ve never seen those out here. We have one tiny buttercup blooming right now, but I still need to look up which one it is. Apparently there are about a dozen different ones just n the Hills!

I would guess that Alberta would have roughly the same wildflower season that we have. It’s beginning to look as though the bloom of the earliest flowers has been condensed and the later ones might be closer to “on schedule”.

So many of these are at least a little familiar to me now, and it’s as pleasurable for me to see them as it is to see our own flowers emerging. Your trilliums seem early this year. I think I recall you and Steve Gingold finding them at about the same time each year, but he hasn’t mentioned them yet. They’re such a pretty flower — as are they all. The Woodland Star reminds me of the white Gaillardia: at least in the arrangement of those petals. It’s an entirely different family, of course, but its complexity is pleasing.